saudade

noun
/saʊˈdɑːdə/

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese saudade.

  1. borrowed from saudade

Definitions

  1. A feeling of melancholy and wistful yearning for something that is absent, impossible or…

    A feeling of melancholy and wistful yearning for something that is absent, impossible or lost.

    • I have the feeling, from using the word as a first language speaker, that saudade conveys a bit more feeling, a bit more sorrow, a bit more longing than “I miss you”.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for saudade. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA